TWL #8: Immortality Through Quantum Suicide

Immortality sounds, uhh... kinda awful, but there is a theory on how to achieve it by using quantum mechanics.

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[galaxyorigins]

Guys don't try this, it has been patched

[theCodyReeder]

I inhabit the universe where I decided not to perform the experiment.

[NicksDomain]

So basically to become immortal I should play a nerve racking russian roulette with a nuclear bomb 300 times.

[bruhmoment]

"he's trying to kill himself"


"activate quantum immortality"

[friedmaruchan]

When the video got to the part about quantum suicide, I was ok that it was a 50/50 chance. What I was not ok was that you did it multiple times. I had a heart attack when you counted again.

[chricechiu]

Am I the only one get nervous when he was like '3, 2, 1, click. 3, 2, 1, click"

[drdaunaldpaunald]

"do I scratch my butthole" *imagines how I just created a universe while scratching myself*

[ICanSeeItInYourEyes]

Each of us has already died in an incalculable number of outcomes in alternate realities.

[PerfectSound]

In order to know that you've died, you have to be aware of your death in other words, to be dead you'll have to be alive and to be alive you'll have to know that you have died before.

Kind of like a dream. If you didn't wake up from a dream, how would you know that you were dreaming? You only notice that you were in a dream after you wake up :P

[samarvora]

So the universe was most famously split by Shakespeare
"To be or not to be?"

[MastaSmack]

I actually remember dying a lot, I just keep "Waking up" afterward

[allthingspaper]

They REALLLLY need to make a movie about this

[danny]

Slow the video at 0:13

*"Gay Bomb"*

[mooseandsquirellfriend]

It's a comforting thought for me that everyone I care about who has passed could still be alive and well in other parallel universes, even if its only theoretical.

My only problem with the thought experiment is everyone assumes that it means you're immortal in a mobile healthy intact body. The theory doesn't have to suggests that a gun will never fire, a normal gun could fire and take off your face, leaving you in a semi vegetative state for all eternity. It's the only flaw in my otherwise perfect dice gambling strategy. :-(

[PatrickAllenNL]

Every time I decide to eat a bag of chips...the universe splits...thats like 3 times a week

[h.p.]

"existential crisis" inbound

[chrisx]

1:35 I have split many worlds countless ammounts of times by swipping either left or right on Tinder.

[nickfrazier]

I can't believe it. I thought of this when I was like 11 or 12 but just threw it to the side because I thought it was too far fetched and that nobody would believe me. It amazes me to see that I'm not the only one that thought of this.

[justthecoolestdudeyo]

I should point out that the many worlds theory doesn't deal with decisions by macro-scale people. It's entirely based on subatomic randomness, so the proton being spin up or spin down when measured means that another world was created where the spin points the other way. When you go to the edge of a cliff, your thoughts aren't "random", a series of algorithms in your brain create the thought process that leads you to make those decisions. Running those algorithms through your brain matter is unlikely to be influenced by the quantum randomness that would result in the creation of a "split" world

[planefan]

Rule one of multi-world theory: Do not think about multi-world theory